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| [SOLVED] Which book to buy? [message #649453 is a reply to message #649375] |
Wed, 19 January 2011 09:54   |
 Grzegorz
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Are you kidding? Do you think that I didn't do that?
I have just asked you guys, because majority of books I have found have conflicted reviews and some of them were really outdated (e.g. 5-6 years).
[In my question I clearly asked about complete and reliable (not outdated) book]
I have just wanted to find out on what books did you learn (if any).
But if that topic is going to go in direction "fool, ask google first", so TOPIC TO CLOSE, and forget you've ever seen it.
@Mark
Sorry for wasting your time while reading my post, but I won't beg you for help.
Bye
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| Re: Which book to buy? [message #650643 is a reply to message #649453] |
Tue, 25 January 2011 19:28 |
Dan Pollitt
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I think "Eclipse Rich Client Platform Second Edition" by Jeff McAffer,
Jean-Michel Lemieux and Chris Aniszczyk is really good and pretty current
(may 2010 - 3.5 with ref to 3.6). ISBN-13: 978-0-321-60378-4
For interesting looks at some specialist areas I enjoyed "Practical Eclipse
Rich Client Platform Projects" by Vladimir Silva 2009. ISBN-13:
978-1-4302-1827-2
Dan
Grzegorz <gregory.d3@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark wrote on Wed, 19 January 2011 01:19
>> On 1/17/2011 5:08 AM, Grzegorz wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>> What good, complete and reliable (not outdated) book would you suggest
>>> for Eclipse RCP beginner?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions
>> http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie
>> =UTF-8&q=eclipse+rcp#hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&a mp;a mp;a
>> mp;q=eclipse+rcp+book&cp=13&qe=ZWNsaXBzZSByY3AgYg&am p;am p;am
>> p;qesig=T3I8P8w-9hEiXug9W47lzA&pkc=AFgZ2tldGfcMgrc5cGDWZ
>> _O9QFvVE45L8sz5XtRp3BKoIQuEPRufwd3U-O7qvJ3VY9LuNNxxZoy131tpx
>> JNAx8Gbiqoukc99ew&pf=p&sclient=psy&source=hp& ;amp ;amp
>> ;aq=0&aqi=&aql=&oq=eclipse+rcp+b&pbx=1&f p=ee5b8d49ec6ea034
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> Are you kidding? Do you think that it didn't do that?
> I have just asked you guys, because majority of books I have found have
> conflicted reviews and some of them were really outdated (e.g. 5-6 years).
> [In my question I clearly asked about complete and reliable (not outdated) book]
>
> I have just wanted to find out on what books did you learn (if any).
>
> But if that topic is going to go in direction "fool, ask google first",
> so TOPIC TO CLOSE, and forget you've ever seen it.
>
> @Mark
> Sorry for wasting your time while reading my post, but I won't beg you for help.
>
> Bye
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| Re: Which book to buy? [message #651245 is a reply to message #650643] |
Fri, 28 January 2011 14:23 |
Frecklefoot
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| Dan Pollitt wrote on Tue, 25 January 2011 14:28 | I think "Eclipse Rich Client Platform Second Edition" by Jeff McAffer,
Jean-Michel Lemieux and Chris Aniszczyk is really good and pretty current
(may 2010 - 3.5 with ref to 3.6).
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This book may have been good when it came out, but now it is hopelessly outdated and the information doesn't map well to the latest version of the Eclipse IDE. The book begins well, but as soon as one attempts to do things in the IDE, the trouble begins. The book begins to fall apart in Chapter 3 during the Target Platform Setup. It's completely unworkable. Since that's optional at that point, it can be skipped. But another roadblock occurs in Chapter 5 in "Adding the Contacts View to a Perspective". It doesn't work and even the code that can be downloaded from the accompanying website doesn't work (it runs, but it doesn't do what the book shows it's supposed to). 
To be fair, up until the roadblock in Chapter 5 (and the unworkable Target Platform Setup in Chapter 3), the book is fairly good. But given that there's 29 chapters, 83% of the book is useless. I can't recommend this book to anyone attempting to learn the Eclipse RCP. If a Version 3 comes out, it may be worth picking up, but that remains to be seen. Stay away from this book unless you have an ERCP expert on hand to get you past the unreliable sections of the book.
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| Re: Which book to buy? [message #654759 is a reply to message #649453] |
Wed, 16 February 2011 23:58 |
Mark
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Registered: July 2009 |
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On 1/19/2011 4:54 AM, Grzegorz wrote:
> Mark wrote on Wed, 19 January 2011 01:19
>> On 1/17/2011 5:08 AM, Grzegorz wrote:
>> > Hi all
>> > What good, complete and reliable (not outdated) book would you suggest
>> > for Eclipse RCP beginner?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any suggestions
>> http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie
>> =UTF-8&q=eclipse+rcp#hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&a mp;a mp;a
>> mp;q=eclipse+rcp+book&cp=13&qe=ZWNsaXBzZSByY3AgYg&am p;am p;am
>> p;qesig=T3I8P8w-9hEiXug9W47lzA&pkc=AFgZ2tldGfcMgrc5cGDWZ
>> _O9QFvVE45L8sz5XtRp3BKoIQuEPRufwd3U-O7qvJ3VY9LuNNxxZoy131tpx
>> JNAx8Gbiqoukc99ew&pf=p&sclient=psy&source=hp& ;amp ;amp
>> ;aq=0&aqi=&aql=&oq=eclipse+rcp+b&pbx=1&f p=ee5b8d49ec6ea034
>
>
> Are you kidding? Do you think that it didn't do that?
> I have just asked you guys, because majority of books I have found have
> conflicted reviews and some of them were really outdated (e.g. 5-6 years).
> [In my question I clearly asked about complete and reliable (not
> outdated) book]
>
> I have just wanted to find out on what books did you learn (if any).
>
> But if that topic is going to go in direction "fool, ask google first",
> so TOPIC TO CLOSE, and forget you've ever seen it.
>
> @Mark
> Sorry for wasting your time while reading my post, but I won't beg you
> for help.
>
> Bye
You didn't need to beg. you COULD have said what books you did find. I
just didn't feel like typing in what the link says. Since you googled
it, how would you think that we would know of any other book?
Heck, I asked a valid question, one on architecture, and not a frigin
answer. And you whine because posted a link to the only book.
FYI - I used the first Eclipse Book even though it was outdated, a few
years back.
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